Author: Tom Entrikin | Posted: 5. April 2012 07:07
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) issued the Medicaid Information Technology Architecture (MITA) Framework, Version 3.0, on March 28. CMS also released, on March 21, updated standards for the adoption of operating rules for eligibility determinations under health plans and health care claims transactions. [More]
Author: Tom Entrikin | Posted: 28. March 2012 05:24
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) issued final rules on March 23 on provisions of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) on determining eligibility under the Medicaid and Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP). [More]
Author: Tom Entrikin | Posted: 26. March 2012 11:04
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) issued final rules on March 23 on reinsurance, risk corridors, and risk adjustments to mitigate potential financial risks to health insurance plans under health care reform and to alleviate insurers' needs to build large risk premiums into their rates. [More]
Author: Tom Entrikin | Posted: 15. March 2012 08:44
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued on March 12 a draft copy of final rules on state health insurance exchanges under the Affordable Care Act (ACA). The final rules are scheduled to be published officially in the Federal Register on March 27, to be effective 60 days later. [More]
Author: Tom Entrikin | Posted: 8. March 2012 05:01
Governor John Kitzhaber signed legislation (S.B. 1580) on March 2 authorizing additional steps to implement regional coordinated care organizations (CCOs) throughout Oregon for 600,000 Medicaid recipients under the Oregon Health Plan. [More]
Author: Tom Entrikin | Posted: 8. March 2012 04:55
The Executive Office of the President, Office of Management and Budget (OMB), outlined proposed reform ideas pertaining to OMB circulars on grants to state, local, and tribal governments, in a Federal Register notice on February 28. [More]
Author: Tom Entrikin | Posted: 29. February 2012 07:44
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released proposed rules on February 23 specifying "stage 2" criteria that eligible professionals, general hospitals, and critical access hospitals must meet by 2014 to continue to qualify for Medicare and Medicaid payment incentives for the adoption and meaningful use of electronic health record (EHR) systems under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA). [More]
Author: Tom Entrikin | Posted: 28. February 2012 11:21
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced on February 27 that it anticipates extensions in funding opportunities under the Level One and Level Two Health Insurance Exchange Establishment grant programs. [More]
